Times Herald-Record | Tuesday, December 15, 2015
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VARSITY845 INDOOR TRACK
Trowbridge’s path to success
Kingston runner
got itch from
bond with dad
“I think this year can be his year to be a league
and/or Section 9 champ,’’
By Ken McMillan
was really tough, but it gave
me a great base (of training)
for freshman year.’’
Now a senior, Trowbridge was a top-four title
contender in a competitive cross country season,
placing third at the Orange
County Interscholastic
Athletic Association championships and fourth in the
Section 9 Class A meet.
He was the No. 2 finisher
among Section 9 runners at
the state meet (20th overall),
Federation meet (14th) and
Nike regional (25th).
Trowbridge’s thoughts
now turn to track and
field, where he is a stronger
competitor as the indoor
season gets underway. He
has his sights set on winning at 3,200 meters and
possibly 1,600 at the county
and sectional meets. A
three-time state qualifier,
Trowbridge has never won
OCIAA or sectional titles.
As a sophomore and junior,
he finished second 10 times
in championship meets and
either third or fourth an
additional seven times in
the 1,600, 3,200 and 3,000
steeplechase.
“I think it’s going to be a
good season,’’ Trowbridge
said. “It will be competitive
at sections and exciting.’’
Penny Greibesland, junior,
Warwick: The hurdler ran a
season-best 8.89 seconds.
Ahnrea McCaskill, senior,
Newburgh: The high jumper
placed 16th at the state
meet and is the defending
Section 9 Class A champ.
She’s also a top sprinter.
Kathryn Munks, senior, MonroeWoodbury: The distance
runner placed eighth at the
state meet at 3,000 meters,
and is the defending OCIAA
champ.
Katie Murphy, senior, Cornwall:
The high jumper posted a
best leap of 5-1.
Middletown sprint relay: Freshmen De’ja Bowen and Bria
Oatman, and senior Keyana
Zollner need to find a new
fourth runner to return
to the championship hunt.
Winter meet schedules
OCIAA meets at Gillis Fieldhouse, West Point: 6 p.n. Dec.
11; 1 p.m. Dec. 12; 6 p.m.
Dec. 18; 1 p.m. Dec.19; 6 p.m.
Jan. 8; 1 p.m. Jan. 9; 6 p.m.
Jan. 15; 1 p.m. Jan. 16; Jan.
22: Div. II and IV meets, 6
p.m.; Jan. 23: Div. 1, III and V,
1 p.m.; Jan. 29: OCIAA meet
trials, 6 p.m.; Jan. 30: OCIAA
meet finals, 1 p.m.; Feb. 19:
Relay carnival or makeup
date, 6 p.m.; Feb. 20: Relay
carnival or makeup date, 1
p.m.
Feb. 5: Section 9 meets at
Gillis Fieldhouse, West
Point: Class A meet, 6 p.m.;
Feb. 6: Class B meet, 1 p.m.;
Feb. 26: girls state qualifier,
6 p.m.; Feb. 27: boys state
qualifier, 1 p.m.; Feb. 28:
snow date, 1 p.m.
Sullivan County meets at
SUNY Sullivan (3:30 p.m.):
Dec. 14, 16, 21; Jan.
4, 6, 11, 20, 25; Feb. 8: Sullivan championships
SUNY Rockland meets: Dec.
28 – Pearl River Invitational,
8:30 a.m.; Jan. 13 – Ridgewood Invitational, 4:30 p.m.
New York Armory events
(216 Fort Washington Ave.,
New York): Dec. 12 – Jim
Mitchell Invitational; Dec.
18 – New Paltz Running
Camp Invitational; Dec. 19
– Hall of Fame Invitational;
Dec. 22 – New Jersey Spiked
Shoe Club Holiday Festival;
Dec. 26 – Sprint Night and
North Shore Invitational;
Dec. 29 – Marine Corps
Holiday Classic; Jan. 8-9
– Hispanic Games; Jan. 13 –
Millrose Games Trials; Jan.
Times Herald-Record
Thorr Trowbridge arrived
late to the running scene,
drawn into long fitness runs
with his father, Jorian, in the
summer before his freshman year at Kingston. As
it turned out, dad got into
shape and Thorr developed
into a top-flight distance
runner.
“We would do really long
runs, like 20-plus miles,’’
Trowbridge said. “At first it
was mostly that I wanted to
do something with my dad.
… I thought it would be fun.
Then I really got into it. In
the beginning, of course, it
Athletes to watch
BOYS
Chris Carrion, senior, MonroeWoodbury: The long jumper
surpassed 22 feet.
Jahnique Dessaline,
senior, Newburgh: The
sprinting standout ran 6.51
seconds in the 55-meter
dash and is a valuable relay
runner.
Christopher Ebbrell, senior, Pine
Bush: The triple jumper came
up an inch shy of 44 feet.
Brendon Perez, senior, Middletown: He is the defending
OCIAA champion in the triple
jump (44 feet, 5 inches) and
won the OCIAA division and
Section 9 Class A meets.
Troy Zanger, senior, Port Jervis:
The high jumper cleared 6-6
and won the OCIAA division,
OCIAA meet and Section 9
Class A meet titles. Zanger
was sixth at state meet.
GIRLS
Diana Echols, senior, Ellenville:
The weight thrower posted a
season-best of 42-3.
Gabby Fanning, junior,
Cornwall: The mid-distance
runner ran 1:37.13 at 600
meters.
Kingston coach Marcel Lucchese
“I think this year can be
his year to be a league and/
or Section 9 champ,’’ Kingston coach Marcel Lucchese
said. “I think he can be a
state medalist in the 3,200.
His goal, obviously, would
be to medal and who knows
… maybe top three. … For
indoor, if he can get on the
podium (top six) for the
two-mile, that would be a
big accomplishment.’’
Lucchese said he was
impressed with Trowbridge
improving on average 15-20
seconds over his junior year
on each cross country course
he ran this season.
“That makes it a nice way
to finish,’’ Lucchese said.
“Sometimes when you are
at a high level for so many
years, it’s hard for them
to finish off running faster
times. He’s got to feel good
about that.’’
Lucchese said Trowbridge
probably was a bit distracted
during the fall by maintaining a No. 2 academic ranking
in the senior class and narrowing his college choices to
a handful of schools. Trowbridge said Monday that he
is sending his applications
out shortly to Yale, Cornell,
Harvard, Princeton and
Albany.
Trowbridge said he’s not
drawn to the so-called “runner’s high’’ as much as the
head-to-head showdowns.
“I love the competitiveness of it,’’ he said. “It’s such
a fair contest. It’s who trains
the most, who wants it the
most. It’s not like there’s
any weird strategy you can
do. There are no loopholes.
It’s fair, man vs. man. Just
run your heart out.’’
16 – Molloy Stanner Games;
Jan. 22-23 – New Balance
Games; Feb. 3 – New Jersey
Metropolitan Invitational;
Feb. 5-6 – Armory Track
Invitational; Feb. 8 – New
Jersey Varsity Classic;
Feb. 12 – North Shore PreNational Invitational; Feb.
20 – Millrose Games; March
1 – Eastern States Indoor
Championships; March
11-13 – New Balance Indoor
Nationals
Ocean Breeze Sports Complex events, debuting this
season (625 Father Capodanno Boulevard, Staten
Island): Dec. 19 – Bishop
Loughlin Games; Dec. 30
– Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival; Jan. 9, 30, 31 – Ocean
Breeze Invitational
State championship, at
Cornell University, Ithaca:
March 5, 9 a.m.
Monticello, Port Jervis,
Cornwall, Goshen,
Poughkeepsie
Division IV: Onteora,
Marlboro, Liberty, Spackenkill, Ellenville, Dover, James
OCIAA alignments
Division I: Newburgh,
Kingston, Monroe-Woodbury, Middletown, Pine Bush
Division II: Valley Central,
Washingtonville, Warwick,
Minisink Valley, Roosevelt
Division III: Wallkill,
Kingston’s Thorr Trowbridge,
finishing second in the 3,200meter run at the Section 9 state
qualifier in February, should
have another big indoor season.
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I. O’Neill, John S. Burke
Catholic, Rondout Valley
Division V: Sullivan West,
Pine Plains, Millbrook,
Tri-Valley, Chester, Eldred,
Chapel Field, Fallsburg